Haryana’s positivity rate reaches 5.23%, recovery in reverse gear
Uptick in positivity since April 1; with 7,177 new infections in a day, state registers another major spike
CHANDIGARH: Haryana on Sunday logged 7,177 new Covid cases and 29 deaths, while the number of active patients rose to 42,217, as per the health bulletin.
On Saturday, Haryana had recorded 7,717 fresh infections and 32 deaths. The positivity rate on Sunday stood at 5.23% —an uptick from 4.67% on April 1.
Similarly, the recovery rate has come down to 87.22% from 95.37% on April 1 even as 3,11,339 people have recovered so far, of the 3,56,971 people that have tested positive in the state since the pandemic hit.
With 2,401 cases Gurugram continued to record the highest number of fresh cases, Faridabad logged 998, Sonepat 573, Hisar 521, Ambala 221, Karnal 501, Panipat 208, Rohtak 145, Rewari 40, Panchkula 179, Kurukshetra 193, Yamunanagar 171, Sirsa 214, Mahendergarh 82, Bhiwani 180, Jhajjar 117, Palwal 45, Fatehabad 126, Kaithal 10, Jind 230, Nuh 18 and Charkhi Dadri four.
Twenty-nine fatalities were reported from 12 districts while 3,489 people recovered from the infection.
The death toll due to the contagion has climbed to 3,415 (2,281 males, 1,133 females and one transgender). The number
29 DEATHS TOOK THE STATE’S TOLL TO 3,415 WHILE THE NUMBER OF ACTIVE CASES NOW STANDS AT 42,217
of critically-ill patients rose to 534 with 113 patients on ventilators and rest on oxygen support.
As many as 31,579 people were vaccinated on Sunday, increasing the number of people given the jab to 31.88 lakh.
Former CM Hooda, wife test positive
ROHTAK: Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and his wife Asha Hooda tested positive for Covid on Sunday.hooda said he and his wife took the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test after developing flu-like symptoms and their reports returned positive.
The 73-year-old Congress leader said, “Currently, all our parameters are normal and we are at Medanta Hospital under doctors’ supervision. I have fever, but I am alright. People who came in contact with me recently should get themselves tested.”
On Friday, another senior Congress leader from the state, Randeep Singh Surjewala, had also tested COVID-19 positive.
Last year, Hooda’s son and Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda had also tested positive for the virus, but the former CM had tested negative, but the former CM had tested negative.
After the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, several top politicians from Haryana have contracted the infection.
They include CM ML Khattar, his deputy Dushyant Chautala, state home minister Anil Vij and a few other ministers and assembly speaker Gian Chand Gupta.
(With agency inputs)